New Affordable Housing Community Coming to Irvine
Construction for 68 affordable townhomes is underway in Irvine to help the city meet its state-mandated affordable housing quota.
Sage Park will include 16 two-bedroom, 36 three-bedroom, and 16 four-bedroom homes. The construction lot spans fouracres north of Irvine Boulevard in Portola Springs.
When it’s complete, it will be the first ownership project by the Irvine Community Land Trust (ICLT), a non-profit that creates affordable housing.
“We are aiming to make Irvine a place where residents can thrive rather than barely get by,” ICLT executive director Mark Asturias said in a statement. “Sage Park provides a wonderful opportunity for moderate-income families to enter the world of home-ownership at nearly half the cost of a comparable home elsewhere in Irvine.”
He said he s interested in helping downtown businesses survive and discussing what the city can actually do to support them. He added that he s currently more interested in smaller projects, like making aesthetic improvements or adding landscaping over more ambitious projects like a parking garage at the moment.
When it comes to Menlo Park s relationship with its train tracks, he said, grade separations are often discussed as an an important long-term goal. I don t think we should lose sight of it, he added.
At the same time, the idea of quiet zones, or creating some kind of change at specific rail crossings to reduce the noise impacts of Caltrain, is another idea that could be pursued in the shorter-term, though he said he wasn t necessarily endorsing the idea.
The Menlo Park City Council met Saturday for its annual goal-setting meeting, ironing out its top priorities for the year ahead and letting the community air its grievances and recommend which new priorities should be adopted.
The Palo Alto City Council formalized its resistance to recent state and regional efforts to boost housing supply on Monday night, when the City Council adopted a resolution reaffirming its commitment to "local control."